Sunday, August 23, 2009

1923 : SCIENCE AND THE FUTURE.

Up video:JBS Haldane introducing russian organs revival experiments.

Although edited in 1923: Daedalus; or, Science and the Future, written by the biologist and populational geneticist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane(1892-1964), continues generating polemic. Haldane, defender of the perpetuation and constant improvement of our species -above any current ethical or moral consideration- predicted the emergency of test tube babies (ectogénesis),the sociological-social effects of separation of sexual love and the reproduction, the selection -of elite- of men and women like ancestors of new superior generations to the average, promoting -a way to say it- to musicians of first class with diminished convictions for robbery or crime. Haldane foresaw the scientific control of our passions and the stimulation of our imagination, eliminating our perversions by means of physiology, more than with prison.

Provocative by nature, he sustained that his militant atheism was his only rational support while he carried out experiments, avoiding in such a way, the interference of God, angels or demons. Haldane wrote this article in front of smoky remains of cities populated by each less human beings, after the First World War. With visions that imagined the man like mere parasite of machines to come. According to Haldane the creators will be like Prometheus always interested primarily in the truth. That man's destination will be to conquer the space, its own body, that of other alive beings, until finally to eliminate the entirety of our bad habits and low instincts. The scientist of the future, will look like the loner and neutral figure of Daedalus, conscious and proud of his mission.